I'm working with the Crypto++ library. The community has two separate patches. The patches were created separately with svn diff because the library uses subversion.
One patch installs the library's ...

I have two XML, before and after the user has edited them. I need to check that user have only added new elements but have not deleted or changed old ones.
Can anybody suggest to me a good algorithm ...

Could anyone suggest a good diff software that:
- Can ignore differences in comments in Fortran source codes, even if they are on the same line as executable statements
- Is preferably visual (GUI)
- ...

I am looking for a java util which can create a diff between two java objects, which can be nested and contain arrays etc.
The util should also have the capability to apply the diff (a.k.a patch) on ...

I am trying to maintain file history on a server from a client and I have thought of using xdelta for it. There is almost no help online for using xdelta. I gathered a few bits and pieces of code and ...

I have a file input.txt passed to a data structure in Java from command line. My job is to keep the structure sorted and return the boolean for insert, find, and delete calls.
input.txt is a file of ...

I have written a node.js script which scans a very large legacy code base and applies a set of changes.
The changes can be quite complex because this affects certain storage mechanisms and associated ...

I have pulled the master, and tried to merge the master in a local branch.
It looked like everything went fine, and I solved the conflicts.
But not all files were merged. There are differences in the ...

For a long time I've been making backups on two external drives. And these drives are driving me crazy.
Although the general information stored on 2 drives is the same, their filesize is different, ...

I have a master branch. Then, I modified some files but realized that I want to have these changes in a feature branch. I created a feature branch and went on with modifying files.
But now, I need a ...

I have a directory with a bunch of C files, .c and .h, and another very similar directory of files that a coworker has sent that have very minor differences, due to an update, and I'd like to see what ...

If I run git diff and have several files changed I find I get one long listing of the diffs with no clear separation between one diff and the next.
Is there any way to highlight the first line of a ...

git add --patch is very important to me. It shows all the diff chunks, and I say "yes" or "no" to add them to the index, from which I commit. In particular if I added something like a console.log in ...

I'm using tkdiff on 2 big files that might have some sections that are very different.
However, through these 2 files threre are several points (known in advanced) that are exactly the same.
tkdiff ...

To do code review, I often make a git difftool hash_of_parent_of_first_commit_in_branch last_commit_in_branch of a feature branch. The feature_branch was created from its source (let's call it master ...

What is the best way of getting the differences between two directories then outputting only what has changed to a third directory while still maintaining proper directory/file hierarchy?
diff gets ...

I have these 2 files file1.txt
$ cat file1.txt
I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples.
I need to run the laundry.
I need to wash ...

I have these 2 files file1.txt:
$ cat file1.txt
I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples. I need to buy apples.
I need to run the laundry.
I need to wash ...

I'm trying to use the diff function to calculate the increase in a variable ("damage") in this dataset (df). I want to fill the column "damage_new" with this new variable. The values that you see now ...

I work on WordPress project based and i want to patch my project at each new version release of WP.
For this I want generate a patch between two commits or tags.
For example in my repo /www/WP i do ...